Sun clones, was Re: Sun Sparc ID

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Sat Oct 12 16:49:00 2002

I see people on the list understand these little pizza-box machines.
 I'll have to confess to total ignorance of
the Sun workstations (having been a Domain OS user), but while removing
some test equipment that had been left behind when a large company
moved, I grabbed the following Sun clones:

(they need homes, as the space they are taking up is worth more to me
than they are...)

Axil 311, loaded.

TI SuperSPARC TMS390 CPU, one ST31200N HDD with 2 drive sleds, floppy, 8
slots for 168(?) pin simms, 7 simms installed. S-bus cards include an
Antares Microsystems SCSI/TWP Ethernet II board, an Aurora Technologies
400S multi-port serial I/O, and a color video board with LSI Logic SPARC
SGX video chip.


Axil 320, no so loaded, but interesting.

TI SuperSPARC TMS390 CPU with TMS390 cache controller, one ST32171N HDD
with 2 drive sleds, floppy, 8 slots for 168(?) pin simms with 2 SEC
KMM3144C400BS-6ES simms installed. S-bus cards include Antares
Microsystems 10base-T Ethernet, and an Axil Workstations color video
board with a SunGX video chip.

The motherboard on the 320 is interesting, the simm slots have
extensions for even wider simm modules. There are four of these
extensions but only 2 are populated with contacts, each adding 36
contacts to the simm slot. I've never seen a simm like this. The simm
modules installed do not use these extended contacts. The motherboard
has a sticker reading 705-0004-01 rev-50 320 W/64MB. There is also a
very large QFP chip marked Axil Computer with the number 100-0188-01
just behind the CPU daughterboard. This differs from the 311 which uses
a LSI L64860HC-40 SPARC EMC device in a ceramic BGA package in the same
location. The 311 also lacks the simm socket extensions although the
silk screen and PCB are designed to accomodate them.

I ~beleive~ I also have a single keyboard, mouse and color video cable.
 No monitors.

I'm not really sure these are quite old-enough to be on topic, but after
reading that people on the list were missing power supplies, drives,
sleds, and video boards, I thought I should offer these up as parts
machines if nothing else.

These Axil machines sure appear to be mechanically identical to real Sun
pizza boxes, and I suspect that all the parts are fully interchangable
with the real McCoy. The power supplies do say Axil computer, but they
are off-shore imports so they are probably fully compatible 'clones',
but I'm guessing here.

I dunno what they are, but I know they are in the way!
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 16:49:00 BST